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I am intrigued too. My passport has one name. My citizenship approval came with First name, and surname in the order I want. So I don't know what I will get on my passport.Holdenj183 wrote: ↑Fri May 11, 2018 6:34 amHi
Can anyone help. This is affecting us directly. My husband is British and I am Filipina. We live in the UK. My husband adopted my children via a UK Court so the children are now automatically British citizens. However when we applied for their passports we received this response about aligning names. We thought Philippine Republic Act 9225 relinquished their Philippine citizenship but after a number of enquiries we are now not so sure.
How hard is it to prove that you cannot change the name in the country of origin? What is the burden of proof?
If physically possible but requires attendance in person by the children, would disruption to schooling be grounds for exceptional circumstances?
Hi there,ghgi wrote: ↑Mon Mar 26, 2018 4:53 pmHi,
I thought I would mention that only last week I received my passport after fighting for 6 months (I know it doesn't seem like long from all of the stories I have read on here). I managed to wear HMPO down and get them to add in an observation, as I wasn't going to be renewing my French passport which expired in December. They didn't seem to understand that in France I will always be known under my maiden name, with them an addition of my married name.
I had to send them my new identity card which has this on it, and so I now have my passport with an observation which reads:
Holder has a French passport, number xxxxxx issued xxxxx in the name of xxxxx (maiden name). This passport expires 09/12/2017.
Holder has French Identity Card issued on xxxxxx in name of xxxxxxx ep (married) xxxxx
Hopefully this will help, and if anyone needs more information message me and I will be more than happy to help with a case of precedence.
This interested me because my existing passport is in my maiden name (which had to be scanned in to submit my supporting documents), but my hope is to get my citizenship in the married name with which I have been registered in this country for almost 31 years, so I was relieved to read this thread. In the 10-page "Use and Change of Names" pdf the only clickable link led to Annex A, so I assume this document has changed since it was quoted here, although the second pdf, "Annex A" is as described.Antsmall wrote: ↑Tue Sep 20, 2016 10:06 pm... here is the new name policy page, which contains two pdf documents:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ... e-guidance
In the first pdf, "Use and Change of Names" (click on "Change of name guidance"), the relevant portions are paragraphs 26 to 28. They allow the issue of a British passport in a name other than that on a person's foreign passport if the person can prove that the foreign country of which they are a citizen won't allow them to change their names, and that they have been using their new name (the name desired on the British passport) 'for all purposes'.
In the second pdf, "Annex A: Use of Names in Passports", the relevant sections are paragraphs 6.5 to 6.7. They reiterate the material from the first pdf, provide a few more details, and specify that in such a case, an observation will be placed in the British passport explaining that the person is also known by their other name on their foreign passport.
Appreciate this post was some time ago, but I am worried my wife might have the same issue. She has a slightly different name on her Belarusian passport vs all other docs (one letter is different - a y instead of an i) due to the Belarusian passport using Belarusian transliteration convention. Would this still be considered a problem by the passport office?maximb74 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 08, 2017 10:50 amHi,
Another frustrated customer of HMPO here, just wanted to share our story.
My wife got her first British passport 10 years ago. She applied for a renewal in March, and still has no passport 5 months on. She is also a national of Belarus, and her name in her Belarusian passport is spelt differently. With her application she provided proofs that the only name she uses here in the UK is the name in her British passport. She also provided a letter from the Consulate of Belarus confirming that her Belarusian passport cannot be changed in the UK. After initial two months of silence PO requested another confirmation that Belarusian passport cannot be changed in the UK. When they received that, their response after 6 weeks of thinking was that my wife had to travel to Belarus and change her passport there. I have to stress here that at no point did we receive any formal written response from PO, all information from them was passed on the phone by a clerk reading the case officer’s notes. Nor did they return either of my wife’s passports (her British passport had expired by then). So my wife is expected to go to Belarus and return back to the UK on her Belarusian passport. Belarus is not a EU country and a passport holder needs a visa to travel almost anywhere, including the UK. How on earth is my wife supposed to get back to the UK? Obviously, PO have no idea whether it is even possible to change a name in Belarusian passport, nor do they care if it is possible to travel with such passport. To our request to give more details as to how they imagined this to work they said they cannot give advice on that because it’s not their job, but they have to follow single name policy. We sent them a letter with references to Home Office immigration guidelines arguing that what they are suggesting my wife should do is impossible without breaking HO’s own rules. They went into silent mode again for 7 weeks, the last thing we heard was that my wife’s application is being reviewed by the policy department and no final decision has been made yet… As a result of this red-tape my wife had to miss our family holiday… In the meantime, we wrote multiple complaints to PO’s complaints department – waste of time, to our local MP – wasn’t helpful (conservative first-timer), we even wrote to one of the Lords who worked on the amendments to this policy. We talked to a human rights charity and were told that indeed we have a human right issue here but until we get a formal decision from PO not much can be done. This treatment by PO is absolutely disgraceful. My wife is not allowed to contact her case officer by any means of communication. All she can do is send a letter to a PO Box and hope for a letter back asking her to give a call to the call centre so a clerk can read the case notes. The most annoying thing is that we have no traces of communication from PO, no evidence we could use to put legal pressure on them... The only thing we've not tried is going to a national newspaper, otherwise we've run out of options. I guess our situation is not much different from many others on this forum, but any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
It does not remove the need to attach your old passport, if thats the reason you planned to do it in such way.
You have a certificate of naturalisation or registration
You’ll need both:
your naturalisation or registration certificate
the passport you used to come into the UK or the foreign passport you’re included on
It is not unlikely for you to face issues.
It does not remove the need to attach your old passport, if thats the reason you planned to do it in such way.meself2 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 09, 2024 7:43 am[quote=Boom1 post_id=2170183 time=<a href="tel:1720478028">1720478028</a> user_id=290120]
I am planning to lodge an application to withdraw from my Ukrainian citizenship once I get a UK citizenship certificate and attach the aknowledgement from Ukrainian government to Passport application.
[quote=Boom1 post_id=2170183 time=<a href="tel:1720478028">1720478028</a> user_id=290120]You have a certificate of naturalisation or registration
You’ll need both:
your naturalisation or registration certificate
the passport you used to come into the UK or the foreign passport you’re included on
For naturalisation UKVI routinely change special characters to the nearest letter used in English. So this is not a name change and shouldn’t be a problem. But best to include a covering note with your application explaining this, in case an inexperienced caseworker raises an issue.ronnie87 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 31, 2025 3:54 pmI have recently naturalised as a British citizen and I would like to apply for a passport. I've been reading about the one name policy for dual nationals, but it is not clear to me how strict this is. In my case: I am Hungarian by birth and my name, as written on my birth certificate and all foreign ID documents, contains diacritics, specifically acute accents, as per the correct spelling in the Hungarian language. However, as the UK does not use diacritics, on my certificate of naturalisation, my name is spelt without the diacritics, more specifically it is spelt with "A" instead of "Á". My question is whether this can cause me any issues when applying for a passport -- given that I need to submit my foreign passport, which contains the native spelling -- or are diacritics just ignored and "Á" is considered the same as "A" for the purposes of name matching?Does anyone here have any experience in this regard? I expect that diacritics are quite common, especially in European names, so I can't be the only one in this situation.
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